NOTICE -- Tomorrow is the last day of the Festival, so time draws to wrap up your drafts -- post the balance of your Decaths, honor the Crappy Poem Thread with your sacrifices, and definitely
VOTE FOR POET LAUREATE -- LAST CHANCE -- GREAT POEMS -- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT-- BUY ME A BEER
It is not last call, but it will bee.
Cheers.
Welcome to The Tangled Branch! Join us.
Main Gate and Information Booth
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
It is my sad duty to declare The Tangled Branch's second Mid-Summer Poetry Fest closed.
But it is my delight to declare it a wonderful success.
What a great time. We hope you all join us again for the festivities.
And for NaPo, of course, when the time comes round.
Cheers.
Over and out.
T
But it is my delight to declare it a wonderful success.
What a great time. We hope you all join us again for the festivities.
And for NaPo, of course, when the time comes round.
Cheers.
Over and out.
T
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Thanks again Tracy
- Tracy Mitchell
- Posts: 3489
- Joined: Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:58 pm
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Thank you Colm.
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Not so active this time around - the heat really does slow down my brain - but I've enjoyed it nonetheless. So-called 'Real Life' does sometimes get in the way as well.
But it encouraged me to to finally buy a new microphone and look into the choices of recording software again. (I'll have a bit more to say about that elsewhere.)
Clifftop Drummer and It's Not Yours have been lurking at the back of my brain for a long time and the Poetry Fest gave me that final push to getting them out of the labyrinth and onto paper. A bit like the Jump Master at parachute school shoving you out through the hatch. "You know the theory, now just get on and bloody do it."
Valhalla Could Be A Problem surprised me a little, which is always pleasant. It's been taped to one of my internal doors for a couple of years now, and as a written piece I was happy with it. But I've been looking for works to be read aloud and along with When I Am An Old Man it cried out to be 'performed', and I discovered that a few words didn't sit right on my tongue and as a spoken piece a few more crept in to replace them, like the 'hair rolling in fluid waves down across their shoulders'. Like live storytelling, I suspect no two performances will ever be exactly the same.
My daughter cracked up the thought of me wanting to see a prospectus for Valhalla. "That's just so you." It was also another line that just added itself 'live'.
=====
So I've learnt far more this last few days than my limited output would suggest.
I am now a few steps nearer to my first open mic event. In a venue so small and cosy that I probably won't need a microphone. In those long-ago outdoor medieval shows we rarely used amplification. Just a Town Crier's projection.
Thanks to all who slaved away behind the curtain to make it happen, and to everyone who shared the ride.
Gyppo
But it encouraged me to to finally buy a new microphone and look into the choices of recording software again. (I'll have a bit more to say about that elsewhere.)
Clifftop Drummer and It's Not Yours have been lurking at the back of my brain for a long time and the Poetry Fest gave me that final push to getting them out of the labyrinth and onto paper. A bit like the Jump Master at parachute school shoving you out through the hatch. "You know the theory, now just get on and bloody do it."
Valhalla Could Be A Problem surprised me a little, which is always pleasant. It's been taped to one of my internal doors for a couple of years now, and as a written piece I was happy with it. But I've been looking for works to be read aloud and along with When I Am An Old Man it cried out to be 'performed', and I discovered that a few words didn't sit right on my tongue and as a spoken piece a few more crept in to replace them, like the 'hair rolling in fluid waves down across their shoulders'. Like live storytelling, I suspect no two performances will ever be exactly the same.
My daughter cracked up the thought of me wanting to see a prospectus for Valhalla. "That's just so you." It was also another line that just added itself 'live'.
=====
So I've learnt far more this last few days than my limited output would suggest.
I am now a few steps nearer to my first open mic event. In a venue so small and cosy that I probably won't need a microphone. In those long-ago outdoor medieval shows we rarely used amplification. Just a Town Crier's projection.
Thanks to all who slaved away behind the curtain to make it happen, and to everyone who shared the ride.
Gyppo
I've been writing ever since I realised I could. Storytelling since I started talking. Poetry however comes and goes
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
This was fun - thanks to everyone.
Tracy - I think Marcel's question posed to you about halfway into MSPF was quite legimate: Do you ever sleep ?!?!?
Some awesome writing, some fun writing, and some crappy writing - I was very happy there was a crappy poem thread !!!!!!
And Gyppo - wish I could be at one of your upcoming open mic readings. Very much enjoyed the two read on the Spoken Word thread - great voice and balance to the presentation. And you are right that no two readings will ever be alike, both in words and timbre - I know this from music and songs.
Also, Deb, our Port Laureate - congrats !!! And Colm, Lecram06, Indar, Cheryl12, Dave, et al - Thanks for an enjoyable time.
Aj
Tracy - I think Marcel's question posed to you about halfway into MSPF was quite legimate: Do you ever sleep ?!?!?
Some awesome writing, some fun writing, and some crappy writing - I was very happy there was a crappy poem thread !!!!!!
And Gyppo - wish I could be at one of your upcoming open mic readings. Very much enjoyed the two read on the Spoken Word thread - great voice and balance to the presentation. And you are right that no two readings will ever be alike, both in words and timbre - I know this from music and songs.
Also, Deb, our Port Laureate - congrats !!! And Colm, Lecram06, Indar, Cheryl12, Dave, et al - Thanks for an enjoyable time.
Aj
Re: Main Gate and Information Booth
Norstrand woods as I recall is contains the site of the little house in the big woods Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Beautiful place.
Beautiful place.